Hi everyone!  This is Christina here and for my project, I decided to use Nikki Sivils’ “Noah” line.  It worked out perfectly because I had the perfect project in mind for it.  I had picked up a plain wood plaque at my local craft store and was saving it for a “just in case” moment.  My moment came.  My friend has an infant boy and I thought this would be perfect to do a name plate with.

I painted my plaque using primary colors since that is the color palette for the “Noah” line.  I wanted to keep the depth of the plaque so I painted each “ledge” using a different color.

While the paint dried, I ran my background paper through my sewing machine to make a border.  Once the paint dried, I put down my sheet of chevron paper.  The screw head brads are glued down using a hot glue gun.  I just snipped off the prongs and glued ‘em down.  They are a perfect touch for this kind of boyish collection.

I decided to try out paper collage on the sun and loved how it turned out.  I used some paper from a foreign text kit from Gauche Alchemy.  I tore one of the sheets into small pieces and applied them to the chipboard using Mod Podge.  I continued to apply small pieces until the sun was covered.  After it dried completely, I cleaned up my edges and colored over it using my yellow ZIG PaintyFX and spraying it with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in “Twinkle Yellow”.  I love that you can see the foreign text showing through.  It adds such nice visual interest.

I painted my tree green and to bring out the tree a little, I used some flower punchinella as a mask on the felt tree top.  I applied some red rhinestones to look like apples.  It added a bit of shine to the whole project and went very well with the foil Thickers.  For the trunk, I peeled off the top layer of paper to expose the corrugated board underneath.  The trunk was already brown so I just spritzed it with “Coffee” Glimmer Mist.

Other small details really help to pull this whole project together.  I used clear punchinella as a backdrop for his name, “Nolan” and added some bling behind the car to imply motion (and to make it prettier too).  The masking is also done using punchinella and a make-up sponge with acrylic paint.

Thank you so much for taking a look!

Cheers!

Christina

Products Used:

• Basically Bare Basically Embellies “Happy Little Trees” Set (BAS-ES011VR)
• Basically Bare Basically Embellies “Celestial” Set (BAS-BB012VR)
• Nikki Sivils “Noah” Collection (NIK-NOA-342)
• Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist “Twinkle Yellow” and “Coffee”
• Gauche Alchemy “Foreign Text” kit and Punchinella
• Delta Creative Acrylic Paint
• American Crafts Thickers
• ZVA Creative Crystal Flourish

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